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AI prompts that make editing easier

  • 17 Nov, 2025

71 ready-to-use templates for journalists, copy editors

The following two paragraphs were written by me and not AI:

The following AI prompts can be super helpful if you can handle them with caution. Treat these prompts as your tool to make your news writing much better. Remember, no prompts and their templates are final. It's up to you how you tweak them as per your need.

Make AI listen to you, follow your style and voice. Don't allow AI to write for you. Make AI your assistant. See, you can't avoid using AI because everyone is doing it and will do it in a big way in the coming days. But the final output should be yours. That's not easy. For doing that you need to be a good driver.

Now, the following two paragraphs, originally written by me (see above⬆️) were improved by AI:

The AI prompts below can be very useful—if you use them with care. Think of them as tools to sharpen your news writing. No prompt or style is fixed. You can adjust them to fit your needs.

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